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How did televisions affect the world? |
The television transformed how information was transmittedand shared, and how film progressively integrated itselfinto all fields of human life over the course of thetwentieth century. |
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What was the physiognotrace? |
The physiognotrace was a mechanized contraptionthat copied a sitter’s traced profile to create asilhouette. |
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What was the Zoopraxiscope? |
The Zoopraxiscope was an important precursor to modern film cinema, which premiered in Europe in 1895 and was adopted by avant-garde artists in the first decades of the twentieth century |
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Why was the second world war important to art? |
The Second World War caused the nucleus of artmaking shifted after 1945—from Paris to New York—and Abstract Expressionism, America’s first major international art movement, became the dominant style of artmaking. |
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Who was commissioned to conduct a series of photographic experiments onanimal locomotion in California? |
Eadweard Muybridge |
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How did automobiles influence the world? |
Automobiles vastly altered the movement of peopleand goods and reshaped the growth patternsand development of cities. The industry helpedto develop a newly structured society based onconsumerism that transformed the Americanlandscape. |
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Who was Moses Williams? |
Moses Williams was a mixed-race black man enslaved by the American artist and museum owner Charles Willson Peale. Between 1802 and 1823, he regularly operated the physiognotrace in the Long Room of Peale’s Museum in Philadelphia. |
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What method did Eadweard Muybridge add to photography? |
Muybridge deployedtechnological advancements in rapid shutter speed.In doing so, he developed a new kind of image-making: instantaneous photography. |
